Monthly Archives: April 2017

KUWAIT: Three main issues dominated the local parliamentary scene yesterday with MPs demanding investigations into the mass fish death and the allegations of Kuwait Football officials' involvement in alleged graft. MPs also called on authorities to take part in...

ZURICH: World sport powerbroker Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah announced his resignation yesterday from the FIFA council, saying he did not want to be a distraction while fighting corruption allegations. Aside from serving on FIFA's top body, the Kuwaiti heads...

KUWAIT: Municipal Council member and chairman of the technical committee Fahad Al-Sane criticized the reluctance of relevant authorities to reveal the true cause behind the 'seasonal fish death phenomenon.' He further criticized them for 'keeping silent' and for failure...

KUWAIT: MP Khalil Al-Saleh announced that he submitted an official request to the National Assembly in order to discuss a report that recommends charging visitors for medical services at public medical facilities as soon as possible. The recommendation was...

FLORENCE: Kuwaiti leading ophthalmologist Khalid Al-Sabti has performed a successful rare eye surgery for an Italian old man who suffered a retinal detachment due to fibrosis resulting from diabetes. The medical procedure was aired lively on screens for specialists...

KUWAIT: It is not a secret that teaching is one of the most physically and mentally demanding careers that helps to shape how countries grow and develop. Bearing that in mind, a new 'class' of creative Kuwaiti teachers took...

KUWAIT: A number of workers demonstrated outside two locations belonging to their company and damaged some properties in protest of their unpaid wages. Police had headed to a shopping mall under construction in Farwaniya following a report about a...

KUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State for Economic Affairs Hind Al-Sabeeh stressed that the government is serious in protecting citizens who were laid off from private companies, and stressed that legislations are being made...

KUWAIT: The drop in the state's general reserves has reached around KD 12 billion over the past two years; that is since the oil prices started falling, according to well-informed sources. Around KD 5.95 billion had been withdrawn from...

KUWAIT: Police are still looking for an arsonist who set fire in a large number of garbage containers in Jahra. The most recent reports came from near a cooking gas cylinders' shop and a police station in the area,...

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia said yesterday it had arrested 46 members of a militant cell responsible for a deadly suicide bombing attack on the Prophet's Mosque in the holy city of Madina last summer that was blamed on Islamic State.
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